This photoshoot was the shoot I wanted to focus on my friend and her little brother and how their relationship is a union. The difference from the first photoshoot is that this shoot is set indoors in their house.

Favourite edited images:

Joiners:

I created the joiners in the same following steps:

To create these I first edited my images on Lightroom where I adjusted the exposure levels and contrast. I decided on keeping some images in their original colour and some in black and white.

I then filtered the colour marked images and exported them to my documents where id be able to use the edited images to create the joiners.

The first image I used was of the two walking together while holding hands. To do the edit I used the rectangular marquee tool to draw out the boxes that I wanted. after highlighting the first cut out, I right clicked on the box and pressed ‘Layer via copy’ where I then got another layer on the right side under my background. I duplicated the background and moved the layers that I was cutting out to the top. I did this many times while also hiding the background multiple times to see what squares I had missed and if it looked okay. I think went back on each layer and double clicked them. this then gave me editing options for that particular section so I went down to drop shadow and edited the opacity, size, angle and width. doing this meant the boxes were more visible and looked more like they stood out.

The last thing I did was add a colour as the background. I did this by simply copying an image from the internet and pasting it onto the edit which created a new layer which was then able to move end every other layer in the edit which brought it only to the background.

Photoshoot Evalution:

In my opinion, the photoshoot for the theme “Union” went quite well overall. The settings I planned to use in my photoshoot plan was the one I ended up using and this was the subjects own home. I think choosing their home as a photoshoot setting was a good choice as the two are familiar to their surroundings and feel more comfortable participating in a shoot when they know their environment well. As well as this, I believe taking the images in the house makes the shoot a lot more personal to the siblings as its where they have spent part/all of their lives living with each other. I was able to get more shots that were staged rather than candid like photoshoot one as I found it easy to freeze the scene just by telling the two to sit still. this would’ve been more difficult to do in an outdoor setting as I wouldn’t be able to control other factors like moving cars, other people in the shot, or the affect of the weather (eg wind). I like how in this shoot I’ve managed to take images of many different activities the two are engaging in as it was all there to use and set up. this inside things like games, instruments, music playing on the tv and balloons. Being in their home meant they were able to show more deeper connections between each other like laughing while playing instruments or simply having a hug. As well as the first photoshoot, this shoot was again able to show the older siblings care for the younger sibling by helping him with the reading or helping him play the game on the floor.

One thing I didn’t manage to do was create the joiners with the camera. I did my joiners on photoshop again as I was unable to create them the other way.

How I want to lay my images out:

window mount ^^